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28 unusual facts about University of Cologne


Anne Will

In mid-1990, she graduated with a Magister Artium from the University of Cologne and began her career in radio and television at Sender Freies Berlin (now part of Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg).

Arnd Krüger

Krüger earned his BA (English major) from UCLA in 1967 and his PhD from the University of Cologne (Modern and Medieval History) in Germany in 1971.

Attributed arms

The reason for the triple-crown symbol is unknown, but it was associated with other pre-Norman kings, with the seal of Magnus II of Sweden, with the relics of the Three Wise Men in Cologne (which led to the three crowns in the seal of the University of Cologne), and with the grants of Edward I of England to towns which were symbolized by three crowns in the towns' arms.

Devlag

It was founded in 1936 by academics Jef Van de Wiele and Rolf Wilkening as a cultural association, with the purpose of strengthening the exchange of students and professors between the universities of Leuven and Cologne.

Faster-than-light

The physicists Günter Nimtz and Alfons Stahlhofen, of the University of Cologne, claim to have violated relativity experimentally by transmitting photons faster than the speed of light.

Gertrude Rosenthal

She obtained a job in the bookstore Kolnische Zeiting where she read many volumes about art history which fostered her interest and expertise in the subject until she had the funds to enroll in the University of Cologne.

ILIAS

A prototype has been developed since end of 1997 within the VIRTUS project at University of Cologne.

Johannes Fried

He was professor at the University of Cologne 1980-1983 and holds the Chair of Mediaeval History at the University of Frankfurt am Main since 1983.

John Siberch

Initially Johann Lair von Siegburg, he was born at Sieglar, near Troisdorf in Germany, and was educated at the University of Cologne.

Kabir Stori

He was selected to study in Germany by the then government and studied psychology with political science, sociology and philosophy from the universities of Frankfurt, Cologne and Marburg.

Karolos Papoulias

He studied law at the University of Athens and the University of Milan, has a doctorate in private international law from the University of Cologne, and is an associate of the Munich Institute for Southeast Europe.

Kathrin Bringmann

Kathrin Bringmann (born 8 May 1977) is a German number theorist in the University of Cologne, Germany and the University of Minnesota, USA who has made fundamental contributions to the theory of mock theta functions.

After briefly serving as an Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota, she joined the University of Cologne, Germany, as Professor.

Lake Yoa

Lake Yoa recently became of interest in the study of global climate trends when a team headed by Stefan Kröpelin, of the University of Cologne, recovered a core of sediment from the bottom of the lake.

Manfred Niekisch

Manfred Niekisch studied biology at the University of Cologne/DE and obtained his PhD (Dr. rer. nat.) at the University of Bonn/DE with a study on the dispersal strategies of the yellow-bellied toad.

Maria Leptin

She leads research groups at the Institute of Genetics, University of Cologne and at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg.

Paul Sarvela

With more than 130 conference papers to his credit, his work has been presented nationwide in the United States, as well as in parts of Europe, where he has been a visiting professor at the University of Cologne (Germany) and lectured in Finland.

Peter Wiedemann

K. Heimann, who later became his teacher during the succeeding residency at the University of Cologne, and Stephen J. Ryan became his mentors and the most influential persons of his academic and clinical life.

Reingard M. Nischik

Nischik studied English and North American Literature as well as Social Sciences at the University of Cologne (Germany), taking the First State Examination in 1977.

Reinhold Ewald

Born in Mönchengladbach, Germany, he received diploma in experimental physics from the University of Cologne in 1983 and the Ph.D. in 1986, with a minor degree in human physiology.

Robert J. McDermott

He has also been a visiting professor at two German universities, the University of Cologne and the University of Freiburg.

Robert Saitschick

He was a professor at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich (1895-1914), Universität zu Köln (1914-1925).

Salvador Giner

Salvador Giner got his PhD in the University of Chicago and has postgraduate courses in the University of Cologne.

Sphinx water erosion hypothesis

Recent studies by German climatologists Rudolph Kuper and Stefan Kröpelin, of the University of Cologne suggest the change from a wet to a much drier climate may have occurred as much as 500 years later than currently thought, coming to an end, they contend, around 3,500-1,500 B.C. Egyptologist Mark Lehner believes this climate change may have been responsible for the severe weathering found on the Sphinx and other sites of the 4th Dynasty.

Tobias Kassung

Between 2005 and 2008 he was appointed lecturer at the University of Cologne.

William Grange

He also taught in German during 2000-2001 as Fulbright Guest Professor at the University of Cologne.

Willy Decker

Decker was born in Pulheim near Cologne and was educated first at the Rheinischen Musikschule in Cologne where he studied violin and later at the University of Cologne and the Hochschule für Musik Köln where he studied philosophy, theatre, music, and singing.

Wolf-Dieter Heiss

Additionally, in 1985, he became the chairman of the Department of Neurology of the University of Cologne.


Cologne City Hall

In 1388 Pope Urban VI signed the charter for the University of Cologne, Europe's first university to have been established by citizenry.

Dorothee Sölle

Sölle studied theology, philosophy and literature at the University of Cologne, earning a doctorate with a thesis on the connections between theology and poetry.

Emagines

The scanned images are then sent to the Research Archive for digital processing, entry into a database and long-term storage on the SAN of the University of Cologne for the DAI.

Eugen Schmalenbach

Schmalenbach is best known as a professor at the University of Cologne, and as a contributor to German language journals on the subjects of economics, and the emerging fields of Business Management and financial accounting.

Geoffrey Hosking

He has been a visiting lecturer in political science at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, a research fellow at Columbia University's Russian Institute, and a visiting professor at the University of Cologne.

Gunther Barth

During two of those years he studied literature and art history at the University of Cologne; he also won a year-long fellowship, awarded by the U.S. State Department, which enabled him to study at the University of Oregon.

Horst Siebert

A native of Neuwied, Rhineland-Palatinate, Siebert studied economics at the University of Cologne (1959–1963), while also studying, and undertaking research in, economics at Wesleyan University (1960–1961).

Jenny Dolfen

She was born in Bremerhaven, and in 2001, she received a degree in English and Latin at the University of Cologne.